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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Elephant Thieves

    • January 11, 1966
    • CBS

    A baby elephant heads for Dr. Tracy's study center after a trapper kills its mother.

  • S01E02 Predator of Wameru

    • January 18, 1966
    • CBS

    Dr. Tracy sets out after a poacher, who has set dozens of animal traps all over the reserve.

  • S01E03 The Killer Lion

    • January 25, 1966
    • CBS

    A game guard's old pet lioness's increasing irritability culminates in an attack on a farmer.

  • S01E04 Adventure of the Lions Cubs

    • February 1, 1966
    • CBS

    Dr. Tracy and Jack Dane come across three lion cubs whose mother has been snared in a poacher's trap.

  • S01E05 Trail of the Cheetah

    • February 8, 1966
    • CBS

    While Janet Lorne is visiting Wameru, an escaped murderer is reported in the vicinity.

  • S01E06 Leopard of Mdala Gorge

    • February 15, 1966
    • CBS

    A professional hunter joins an archaeological expedition, with the job of killing all predatory animals near the camp.

  • S01E07 The Diamond Smugglers

    • March 1, 1966
    • CBS

    Dr. Tracy pays a visit to two Frenchmen who say they are paleontologists, but who are actually diamond smugglers.

  • S01E08 The Chimp Who Went Ape

    • March 8, 1966
    • CBS

    Judy the chimp angers a family of wild chimpanzees when she brings an injured young chimp to the study center.

  • S01E09 The Killer Dog

    • March 15, 1966
    • CBS

    A foul-tempered farmer has trained his German Shepherd dog to attack any and all animals from the Wameru reserve. Paula and Jack Dane find the animal caught in a poacher's snare, rescue it, and take it back to Dr. Tracy to be treated and, more importantly, re-trained—a prospect that's not likely to sit well with the dog's owner.

  • S01E10 Return Of The Killer, Part 1

    • March 22, 1966
    • CBS

    After escaping from prison, Roy Meadows, a wounded killer, heads for Wameru to receive medical aid.

  • S01E11 Return Of The Killer, Part 2

    • March 29, 1966
    • CBS

    Held at gunpoint, Paula must try to remove a bullet from escaped killer Roy Meadows.

  • S01E12 The Maneater Of Wameru

    • April 5, 1966
    • CBS

    A magazine photographer looking for a story lures a hostile tribe of poachers onto the Wameru reserve, thinking that she will get some dramatic pictures to go with the story.

  • S01E13 Crisis At The Compound

    • April 12, 1966
    • CBS

    Dr. Tracy treats an injured leopard and releases it into the wild, but a visiting trade commissioner who wants to hunt for big game sets his sights on the leopard for his trophy. Dr. Tracy sets out to derail his plans.

  • S01E14 The Hostages

    • April 19, 1966
    • CBS

    Clarence the lion and Judy the chimp are kidnapped and held for ransom.

  • S01E15 Judy And The Hyena

    • April 26, 1966
    • CBS

    Judy the chimp, who was once bitten by a hyena, gets nervous, scared and agitated when she sees Paul and Jack bring in an injured hyena pup. Dr. Tracy has a difficult time keeping Judy calm enough so he can treat the hyena.

  • S01E16 Wall Of Flames, Part 1

    • May 3, 1966
    • CBS

    Warned against hunting on the Wameru reserve, a hunter starts a fire to drive the animals out.

  • S01E17 Wall Of Flames, Part 2

    • May 10, 1966
    • CBS

    Paula and Jack face the dangers of a brush fire started by an unscrupulous hunter.

  • S01E18 Judy And The Gun-runners

    • May 17, 1966
    • CBS

    Dr. Tracy lends a helping hand to Dr. Akubar, a gunrunner posing as an archaeologist.

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Return of Clarence

    • September 13, 1966
    • CBS

    Clarence the lion, normally a gentle soul, starts acting oddly after receiving a blow to the head in a jeep accident, becoming edgy, hard to control and growling at everybody. Dr. Tracy suspects that the blow has given Clarence amnesia, a diagnosis seemingly confirmed when Clarence suddenly takes a nasty swipe at Paula.

  • S02E02 Deadline to Kill

    • September 20, 1966
    • CBS

    A rancher releases cattle in a plan to entice lions and leopards to kill them, thus giving the rancher an excuse to drive Dr. Tracy from the area and claim the reserve's land. Dr. Tracy must round up the cattle before the big cats become livestock killers.

  • S02E03 Daktari's Last Hunt

    • September 27, 1966
    • CBS

    A big-game hunter, angry at Dr. Tracy for closing off the Wameru reserve to hunting, stalks Dr. Tracy and Judy the chimp through the wild, trying to prove that Dr. Tracy will have to kill an animal to survive.

  • S02E04 Judy's Hour of Peril

    • October 4, 1966
    • CBS

    Judy the chimp switches the vial used for her regular fever shot, causing Paula to accidentally inject her with a deadly virus. Judy then wanders off into the wild. Her human and animal friends race against time to find her and give her the necessary antidote before it's too late.

  • S02E05 Cheetah at Large

    • October 11, 1966
    • CBS

    The Emir of Asambana's prize cheetah is sick, and may not be able to race in an important contest with a rival tribe. The Emir threatens to cut off the Wameru reserve from using the water on his property unless Dr. Tracy cures his cheetah in time for the race.

  • S02E06 The Test

    • October 18, 1966
    • CBS

    Mike searches in the jungle for a tribal chief's son, who has fled into the bush in an attempt to prove to everyone that he's not a coward.

  • S02E07 Born to Die

    • October 25, 1966
    • CBS

    A pregnant black leopard with a history of killing her previous cubs and attacking her trainer is brought to the center in hopes that Dr. Tracy can change her behavior. However, Judy the chimp fails to lock the leopard's cage and she escapes. Paula is forced to play midwife when she finds the leopard in the bush about to give birth.

  • S02E08 The Trial

    • November 1, 1966
    • CBS

    Dr. Tracy serves as defense counsel for his trained elephant, who is being put on trial by the locals for going on a rampage in a local village and injuring the chief.

  • S02E09 Death in the African Sun

    • November 15, 1966
    • CBS

    Jack is out driving his jeep in the bush with Judy the chimp when the vehicle stalls out. With no water, they're forced to leave the jeep and try to make their way back through the drought-stricken jungle. Jack decides to follow a herd of giraffes, hoping that the animals will lead them to water.

  • S02E10 Revenge of the Leopard

    • November 22, 1966
    • CBS

    Dr. Tracy agrees to escort a wealthy, beautiful woman on a filming safari. Unbeknownst to him, the woman's real objective is to find, track and kill a legendary leopard that killed her father years before.

  • S02E11 Shoot to Kill

    • November 29, 1966
    • CBS

    A sick circus bear escapes into the bush, and Dr. Tracy tries to find it before worried local ranchers kill it, fearful that it will contaminate their water supply.

  • S02E12 Cry for Help

    • December 6, 1966
    • CBS

    Dr. Tracy goes looking for a self-styled tribal "healer" he ran out of the area when he finds that the man has the antidote for the venom of a deadly spider that has just bitten Paula.

  • S02E13 Clarence the Killer

    • December 20, 1966
    • CBS

    A hunter plots to close the Wameru reserve by turning loose a killer lion against Dr. Tracy and then blaming Clarence the lion for the doctor's death.

  • S02E14 The Chimp Who Cried Wolf

    • December 27, 1966
    • CBS

    A TV comedian visits Dr. Tracy's compound to record the sounds made by animals, but his bumbling disrupts the compound and endangers the lives of Paula, Clarence the lion, and Judy the chimp.

  • S02E15 Judy and the Gorilla

    • January 10, 1967
    • CBS

    Two hunters raid the Wameru reserve to steal some very valuable animals, kidnapping Judy the chimp in the process. Dr. Tracy has to stop them.

  • S02E16 Judy the Poacher

    • February 28, 1967
    • CBS

    Dr. Tracy and Jack ask Hedley to investigate the disappearance of several baby animals from the compound. Hedley soon finds the one responsible for the thefts: it's Judy the chimp.

  • S02E17 House of Lions

    • January 17, 1967
    • CBS

    An injured and potentially dangerous lioness escapes from Dr. Tracy's compound. Clarence the lion tries to stop her, but ends up injured by a spear from a native's trap and stranded in a hut with a family of wild lions. Dr. Tracy, Paula and Jack attempt to rescue Clarence.

  • S02E18 Terror in the Bush

    • February 7, 1967
    • CBS

    A jeep accident out in the bush results in Dr. Tracy being seriously injured. Paula and Judy the chimp are the only ones with him and have to find a way to get him safely back through the wild to where he can get medical attention.

  • S02E19 Countdown for Paula

    • January 31, 1967
    • CBS

    Paula and Dr. Tracy work to remove wildlife from an area soon to be flooded when hydraulic engineers dynamite a levee. An impatient engineer, not knowing that Paula is in the area and annoyed over the time lost saving animals, sets off the dynamite ahead of schedule, releasing a wall of floodwater and endangering Paula's life.

  • S02E20 Judy and the Baby Elephant

    • February 14, 1967
    • CBS

    A baby elephant is attacked by a leopard and needs medical care, but the adult wild elephants won't let anyone near the injured baby. Dr. Tracy and Judy the chimp must find a way to help the baby elephant before it's too late.

  • S02E21 A Bullet for Hedley

    • February 21, 1967
    • CBS

    A vicious jewel thief threatens to murder Hedley unless Dr. Tracy gives him a pouch of stolen diamonds that, unknown to him, were taken by Judy the chimp.

  • S02E22 Undercover Judy

    • January 24, 1967
    • CBS

    Hedley accompanies an officer and his Nazi prisoner on a mission to locate microfilm evidence against the Nazi and his cohorts that is supposedly buried on the reserve. However, the officer and prisoner are actually two former German soldiers looking for a cache of buried diamonds. Their plan goes awry when Hedley gives the package of diamonds to Judy the chimp, who hides them.

  • S02E23 Goodbye, Mike Makula

    • March 7, 1967
    • CBS

    Mike is attracted to a beautiful visitor to the compound, who offers him an important job back in the U.S. with a foundation she is setting up. But Mike's friends find evidence that the job offer isn't what it appears to be, and try to stop him from leaving.

  • S02E24 Operation Springtime

    • March 14, 1967
    • CBS

    The coming of spring at the Wameru reserve finds Jack and Mike attempting to hatch abandoned ostrich eggs, with help from Judy the chimp and Clarence the lion.

  • S02E25 King Clarence

    • March 21, 1967
    • CBS

    A valuable royal lion cub needs a blood transfusion, and Clarence the lion has the type of blood needed, but he seems to have disappeared. Dr. Tracy and his friends fan out to find him and save the cub's life.

  • S02E26 The Long Hunt

    • March 28, 1967
    • CBS

    The nephew of an Indian sultan visits the compound, but his real objective is the revenge killing of a tiger previously donated by his uncle. Only Judy the chimp realizes his plan, and saves the tiger several times until Dr. Tracy catches on to the plot.

  • S02E27 Judy and the Vulture

    • April 4, 1967
    • CBS

    Judy the chimp and Clarence the lion "adopt" a vulture as their new friend and playmate, but they don't know that the bird is carrying a lethal virus that makes Clarence very ill.

  • S02E28 A Cub Called Danger

    • April 11, 1967
    • CBS

    Paula discovers a lioness is not feeding her cub. Despite her father's warnings not to interfere with nature, Paula and Judy the chimp decide to "rescue" the cub, endangering the lives of Paula, the cub, and Clarence the lion.